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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will step down from his post on January 20, the day President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, he announced Monday.
The announcement means that the FCC could reach a Democratic majority sooner than it would otherwise be able to. Pai's term was slated to expire in June 2021, though Biden will be able to choose a Democrat to chair the commission once in office. Commissioners must be confirmed by the Senate.
[...] Pai's decision to step down could have significant implications on net neutrality, an issue that helped define his term as chairman. In 2017, Pai voted with his fellow Republican commissioners to remove rules that prohibited internet providers from from blocking or slowing traffic to particular sites and offering higher speed "lanes" at higher prices. Many major internet providers have not yet taken advantage of that rule change, however.
Also at 9to5Mac.
(Score: 3, Touché) by TheReaperD on Tuesday December 01 2020, @03:32AM (2 children)
As someone that rates very high on that scale, I'm seriously offended to be compared to such vile failures of humanity.
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2020, @11:54AM
An acquaintance of mine is 10 years into a long term observational alzheimer study where people take all sorts of those 20 question tests along with some longer ones like IQ and such... The study recently switched the Hare scale along with most of the other similar studies to optional since the results were so random and useless they wouldn't have a use for them even outside the scope of the study.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2020, @07:44PM
Thank you for the reminder that not all persons who share commonly-disparaged traits are cut of the same cloth.